Here’s a tidbit from a Canadian news service. Seems that some Vancouver postal carriers walked off the job to protest a piece of mail that they were required to deliver. A religious group mailed a booklet apparently offensive to the sensibilities of progressive liberals. The subject matter? Lewd photos? Nazi propaganda? No, worse than that. Materials that offended homosexuals, one of the protected minorities. “Hate mail,” that’s what it is!
Canada Post plans to go ahead with the delivery of controversial booklets this week, despite protests from Vancouver postal workers who refused to distribute the mail they called “homophobic.”
“It hasn’t gone out today because of all the attention and we wanted to make sure other mail wasn’t disrupted,” Lillian Au, communications manager for Canada Post’s pacific region, told CTV.ca.
President of the Vancouver local of the Canadian Union of postal Workers, Ken Mooney, told CTV.ca that the religious group picked the wrong community to receive the mail.
“Of all the communities to target, this is probably the poorest choice,” Mooney said in a telephone interview from Vancouver.
“The consciousness of social issues is very high here,” he said of the community he described as left-leaning.
Mooney said his office received several calls from offended local members regarding the booklet.
“It’s a 28-page booklet I would character as nothing but a 28-page diatribe against members of the homosexual community. It’s hate literature and nothing else,” he said.
“It never should have been accepted for delivery by Canada Post,” he said.
The pamphlet calls homosexuality “ungodly,” “unhealthy,” and “unnatural” and blames homosexual people for spreading AIDS by living without “any moral restraints.”
The walkout sent the message that the postal workers “weren’t going to take it. People are deeply offended by this literature,” Mooney said.
Mooney is calling for Canada Post to implement a policy that would spell out its position for future cases such as this one.
“That way, we don’t have to get them to stand off,” he said.
There you have it. The “tolerant” and “diverse” liberals now want to censor your mail. Look for this type of liberal censorship to move south of the border to a post office near you.
